Empress Zenobia: Palmyra's Rebel Queen

by Patricia Southern

The ancient sources for the life and times of Zenobia are sparse, and the surviving literary works are biased towards the Roman point of view, much as are the sources for two other famous women who challenged Rome, Cleopatra and Boudica. In Empress Zenobia , Pat Southern seeks to tell the other side of the legendary 3rd century queen's place in history. As queen of Palmyra (present-day Syria), Zenobia was acknowledged in her lifetime as beautiful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847250343
• ISBN13: 9781847250346
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"